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April 16, 2009

US News and World Report "Top 30" 2009 MBA Rankings: "Early Edition"

4/22/09 Note: The rankings below were accurate with the exception that Chicago was ranked 5 along with MIT and not ranked 6.

As posted originally at GMAT CLUB and later in the BusinessWeek Forum, the US News & World Report "Top 30" 2009 MBA rankings can be seen in a video posted on the USNWR site. The rankings will officially come out on April 23rd, but if you are burning to know the numbers, they APPEAR (Not easy to see them, but possible. Still I will not write "are") to be as follows:

Assuming these are the numbers, clearly Yale SOM is looking like the big winner here (I do like the fact that is in line with my previous comment about Yale being in a strong position because of the new emphasis on government jobs for MBAs). We will have to see whether the reduced ranking at Chicago and Wharton has something to do with employment and internship prospects for their students, but given the nature of these surveys and the minor differences in rank, I will withhold judgment. As regular readers of this blog know, I look at all rankings with a certain degree of suspicion, even my own fabulous "99."

Thanks to Mr. X for bringing this to my attention. He is a gentlemen and a scholar.

-Adam Markusアダム マーカス

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